ewkZen in Bookstores, LibrariesI haven’t been in either of those in awhile, but I bet most people asked to name a famous Zen book would bring up Shunryu’s Beginner’s…Jul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
ewkr/Zen vs r/AskHistorians… oh, the Dharma Drama!I sent this message to the mod team of the Reddit forum AskHistorians after the mod team refused to take down anti-historical religiously…Jun 27, 20221Jun 27, 20221
ewkDo Western Buddhists Lie MORE than Christians on Social Media?This question came up after some dude blocked me on Twitter for saying:Jun 24, 2022Jun 24, 2022
ewkMost people aren’t BuddhistIf we were to label people by the texts they study, apply, and practice, then it would be less confusing and easier for people to…Jun 23, 20221Jun 23, 20221
ewkEverybody Agrees Now: The was never any sitting meditation tradition in ZenBetween the discover of the 900 CE Patriarch’s Hall Anthology, which strongly rejects a variety of Buddhist meditations, and the…Jun 21, 20221Jun 21, 20221
ewkZazen fake this whole time…The [Dogenism] school holds that shikantaza originated in China and was transmitted to the founder of [Dogenism], Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄…Jun 17, 20221Jun 17, 20221
ewkFive PreceptsThere is a meltdown going over in r/Zen about the 5 Lay Precepts.Jun 16, 20221Jun 16, 20221
ewkFour Statements of Zen: Zen’s Answer to Christianity’s 10 Commandments and Buddhism’s Eightfold…I’ll put the longer version on r/Zen and Amazon as usual… but here are some of the basics:Jun 16, 2022Jun 16, 2022
ewkBeginner Zen Study QuestionsWhy don’t Zen Masters teach the Eightfold Path and Four Noble Truth doctrines?May 4, 2018May 4, 2018
ewkWhy do Buddhists get angry about Zen?First we’d have to be able to agree about what a “Buddhist” is, and for the sake of argument I’ll say that a Buddhist is anybody who…Jun 11, 20162Jun 11, 20162